A number of scientists working within EESA joined corporate and civic leaders from around the world for the September 11-14 Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco. Andrew Jones and Bill Collins addressed attendees of Berkeley Lab’s signature “Science to Action” event at the city’s Exploratorium on September 11. The Lab co-sponsored this all-day event…
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This Q and A article appeared first on the Berkeley Lab News Center. Previously, the work of the Watershed Function SFA Research team was featured during a podcast for News Deeply. You can hear Bhavna Arora talk about her research here. One in 10 Americans depends on the Colorado River for bathing and drinking.…
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A Berkeley Lab internship program for Cal State University East Bay (CSUEB) graduate students has initiated a new type of collaboration between the two institutions, building on the strengths of their respective scientific programs and bringing talented master’s-level students from the most diverse university in California to work on research projects at Berkeley Lab.…
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Scientists investigating how human-induced increases in atmospheric methane also increase the amount of solar energy absorbed by that gas in our climate system have discovered that this absorption is 10 times stronger over desert regions such as the Sahara Desert and Arabian Peninsula than elsewhere on Earth, and nearly three times more powerful in the…
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The world is currently generating data at a break-neck pace — about 2.5 quintillion bytes per day — and this trend is only accelerating. To make sense of this torrent of information, Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) has built an ecosystem of researchers to advance data-analytic methods and inquiry, develop and expand software and analytics tools, and share…
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This spring, the DOE unveiled a new climate model designed to achieve a number of mission priorities for the agency by not only predicting how climate will change over time–but also determining how those changes might burden the nation’s energy infrastructure. Experts from Berkeley Lab’s Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division co-led efforts to improve the…
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Credit: Wikimedia Commons Trevor Keenan, a scientist in the Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, participated in a study with UC Berkeley researchers that was published August 20 in Nature Climate Change. A link to the full story authored by Theresa Duque of Berkeley Lab is below. In recent decades, scientists have noted a surge in…
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Colleagues know EESA Research Associate Robin Lopez as someone who is very generous with his time and talents. Many are familiar, for example, with the volunteer work he does in the surrounding Bay Area community to introduce youth to potential careers in science. Now Lopez will be known for having gone so far as to…
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Within the Department of Energy complex of national laboratories, the Geosciences Measurement Facility (GMF) at Berkeley Lab is distinguished by its ability to build, test, and deploy customized instrumentation and innovative data acquisition and telemetry solutions, which are enabling scientists to address some of the most critical Earth, energy and environmental challenges that we face.…
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Isotope geochemists at Berkeley Lab are the first to establish the degree of Potassium (K) isotopic fractionation by plants. Isotopes are atoms of the same element that have a different number of neutrons. Scientists have just in the past decade begun studying for key nutrient elements (other than C,…
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